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| Colorful English! | ||||
| Word or Phrase: | Part of Speech: | Idiom or General?: | Usage? | Restricted? |
| yellow fever | noun | common medical term | fairly common | No |
| Meaning: | ||||
| an infectious disease found in warm regions, the symptoms include sudden onset, fatigue, fever, albuminuria, jaundice, and often bleeding, it is caused by a virus transmitted by the yellow-fever mosquito | ||||
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| Before you travel to many countries, you need to make sure you have your vaccination againstyellow fever. | ||||
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